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Corbin <corbinbird@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 04/22/2016 07:33 PM, Holger Hoffst�tte wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:38:00 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts |
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> >> became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then |
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> >> wiped the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird ~/tb_backup), but |
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> >> got the same issue. |
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> > It has nothing to do with the configuration of Thunderbird; the |
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> > reason is simply that TB 45 was ported to use GTK3. |
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> >> Anyone else with the same problem? I searched a lot, but I didn't |
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> >> find any reports for this, let alone a fix. |
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> > |
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> > Same. I expected something like that and pkgbuilt a package of the |
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> > previous version, which I then downgraded to. Other GTK3 apps like |
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> > xfce-powermanager or pavucontrol have exactly the same fonts like |
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> > the rest of my desktop (XFCE). |
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I'm using Source Code Pro Light as system font. All gtk3 apps ignore |
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the "light" weight setting and are rendering the font "normal". Some |
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Internet research reveals that also other users have the same problem. |
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> Palemoon ( Firefox fork ) switched to GTK3 in version 26.0 from GTK2. |
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> The rendering of web pages was slightly-to-moderately effected. |
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> ( XFCE ) |
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> Cured the problem by updating changing USE flags to "gtk gtk3" from |
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> "gtk gtk2". The next emerge update triggered a lot of new installs |
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> and recompiles. |
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I tried firefox with gtk3 USE-flag but it became unstable and crashed |
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on several websites (reproducible). So I switched back to gtk2. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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